{"id":749,"date":"2011-12-15T21:17:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2011-12-15T21:17:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:17:53","slug":"on-the-mend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"On the mend"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m finally sort of feeling better. I can’t leave the house right after I eat, but I did risk a trip to Target this morning and didn’t have any problems. Mike and I are starting to think that I had food poisoning. Last night we thought Elsa was coming down with the flu, but that never materialized (I have never been so happy to be wrong). I don’t see how I could be this sick and not infect anyone else. Must have been something at the restaurant we ate at on Saturday. <\/p>\n

I spent almost 5 days eating nothing but rice. I had protein for the first time today. I didn’t even feel hungry until about 6 pm tonight. I was starting to seriously consider going on an extreme diet and living on rice for the next several months. I could be skinny! It’s easy to plan out when you have absolutely no desire for food.<\/p>\n

Back when I was having gallbladder problems I ate nothing but rice and beans<\/a> and Wasa crackers for almost a month. I lost 20 pounds. A diet is a lot more successful if you know you will suffer immediate, debilitating pain. That’s what scares me about lapband surgery. I am not educated enough to know how it works, but I think it works by making you sick if you overeat. I don’t want to be sick if I overeat. I don’t want to be scared to eat things I enjoy. I guess things do taste better than being thin, Oprah. I wouldn’t know. I’ve never been thin.<\/p>\n

I’m pondering starting a low-fat diet and seeing if I can stick to it, now that I’ve had a five day purge of everything I usually crave. I bought the ingredients for the recipe I posted above. I’m tired of my chicken and spinach wrap lunch, so maybe vegetarian burritos will be my new thing.<\/p>\n

I’m looking back at my recipe blog and wondering why I never make some of those things anymore. The couscous salad is delicious. I think I stopped making it because Erik created such a mess when he would eat it. I guess I don’t need to get out cookbooks to add a little variety to our menu plan–I just need to go back and figure out what we used to eat. <\/p>\n

Speaking of Erik and his messes. That boy. Argh!<\/p>\n

I swear his sister can eat more neatly with a spoon than he can. And she’s 1. And she’s not a neatness prodigy. Did I spoon feed him too long? I stopped when he was 3. At that point I refused to do it any longer, even though Mike would still spoon feed him his dinner. Now that I’m seeing my 1 year old can spoon feed herself just fine, I’m wondering what the heck I was thinking. <\/p>\n

Of course, that girl has never let me put a spoon in her mouth at all. We had major food issues in the beginning and I gave up on purees. That was a major part of our problem; she didn’t want assistance. She certainly doesn’t have food issues now, though she still doesn’t want assistance. With anything. Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m finally sort of feeling better. I can’t leave the house right after I eat, but I did risk a trip to Target this morning and didn’t have any problems. Mike and I are starting to think that I had food poisoning. Last night we thought Elsa was coming down with the flu, but that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}